Checkrein-fastener



' (No Model.)

VH. J. ELLERS.

CHBGKRBIN PASTENER.

No. 591,462. Patented 001;. 12, 1897.

UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. ELLERS, OF ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, NEW YORK.

CHECK'RElN-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 591,462, dated October 12, 1897. Application filed December 30, 1896. Serial No. 617,442. (No model.)

Zo all whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that LHENRY J. ELLERs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rotterdam Junction, county of Schenectady, and

State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Checkrein- Snaps, of which the following is a specication.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to theaccompanyin g drawings, and the letters of reference' marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several iigures therein. v

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan View of my improved snap. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same in engagement with a check-hook. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken at the broken line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of the casting before the rubber and clip-plate are inserted. Fig. 5 is an end view of the same after the plates are inserted and before the arms are swaged down onto the plate.

The object of my invention is to provide a checkrein-snap that can be easily and quickly secured detachably to the check-hook of a harness and that cannot be accidentally detached and that will not injure the hook.

My invention consists of a clip or eye secured to the cheekrein and adapted to receive the check-hook and provided with a yielding plunger which grips the hook, also of cushions on the plunger and clip to engage the hook, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed. Y

The body part of the snap comprises in an integral malleable casting a cylindrical barrel A, having at one end an attachingcye A', adapted to receive the checkrein, and at the other end the arms A2,adapted to support a brid ge-plate or eye-clip B and form therewith an eye adapted to receive the check-hook H. (Shown in part in Fig. 2.) The barrel-chamber (indicated by the dotted lines AB in Fig. l) contains in its closed end a coil-spring S and the shank or spindle of plunger P. The

. eye-clip plate B is inserted between the arms A2,. as shown in Fig. 5, and secured therein by swaging the ends of the arms down upon the plate to the position shown in Fig. l, the ends of the plate resting upon the ledges A4. The ends of the plate are concaved or cut in .to it the beveled or wedge-shaped arms, as

the hook H when the hook is inserted in the eyes, as seen in Fig. 2. 'Ihe plunger P projects from the barrel-chamber and is forced by the spring out toward or against the clipplate or the intervening cushion-plate. The head of the plunger is also provided with a cushion P', which may be of the same material as the cushion-plate. The end of the plunger is split to receive the cushion-tongue P2 and the split partially closed to pinch the tongue. The cushion-plate and the cushion plunger-head are adapted to engage the eyeinserted hook on its opposite sides and prevent the snap from being accidentally detached from the hook. The plunger-actuating spring causes the hook to be firmly gripped between the two cushions; The cushions also servepto prevent the hook from being marred or perceptibly worn by the movements of the snap while in use.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a checkrein-snap, the combination with a malleable casting comprising a slidewaybarrel, provided at one endv with means for securing a checkrein thereto, and at the Vother end with a pair of arms severally provided at the outer end with a shoulder, of a cushion and cushion-supporting plate inserted between sa'id arms and secured in engagement with the shoulders thereon by overlapping lugs formed by upsetting portions of the arms upon the outer side of said plate, a springactuated plunger inserted in the barrel-slideway, and a head on said plunger movable between said arms toward and from said cushion, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of November, 1896.

HENRY J. ELLERS.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. MosEER, FRANK C. CURTIS.

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